[R] compilation error when installing GLMMGibbs on SuSE Linux 8.2 (R v. 1.7.1)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It's a known problem with that package and gcc 3.3 (but not the 3.2.3 used 
on Windows nor earlier).  The maintainer has been informed ....

On 3 Jul 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Damien Joly <dojoly at wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > I getting compilation errors when trying to install GLMMGibbs (see below).  
> > I'm running R v 1.7.1 on SuSE Linux 8.2.
> > 
> > Has anyone else had this problem?  I tried it on a Win2000/R 1.5.1 combination 
> > and it worked fine.  Any hints are greatly appreciated.
> 
> Which GCC version. There is something with multiline strings being
> disallowed now due to increased standard adherence...
> 
> > * Installing *source* package 'GLMMGibbs' ...
> > ** libs
> > gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include  -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp  
> > -fPIC   -c ars.c -o ars.o
> > ars.c:497:10: missing terminating " character
> 
> ...which that error message looks like it could be a symptom of.
> 
> 

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